Anali za povijest odgoja, Vol. 2 No. 2, 2003.
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Catholic School System in Bosnia-Herzegovina in Twentieth Century
Tomo Vukšić
; Vrhbosanska katolička teologija, Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina
Sažetak
During the last two decades of nineteenth century, solid foundations for Catholic school system in Bosnia–Herzegovina were laid due to Austrian–Hungarian administration of this region. In that very period, several Congregations of women religious began opening their primary schools, mainly in larger towns and localities. In the fi rst half of twentieth century Catholic schools reached a significant level, while some of them were considered the best ones in Bosnia–Herzegovina. Several of these schools were historically first of their kind, like Girls Teachers Training School in Sarajevo and Vrhbosnian School of Theology which was first modern university level school in the history of Bosnia–Herzegovina. Beside general education in their schools, nuns opened and operated also eleven “higher” girls schools and several “professional” schools in the sense of Austrian and Yugoslav education systems. Three so called classical high schools (where Latin and Greek was essential part of the curriculum), opened and run by the Catholic Church, contributed enormously toward educating generations of young intellectuals. These were: Archdiocesan Classical High School at Travnik, Bosnia–Franciscan Classical High School at Visoko and Herzegovina–Franciscan Classical High School at Široki Brijeg. An important role was also played by three Theological seminaries: Vrhbosnian School of Theology at Sarajevo which was opened in 1890 and with which began modern university level education in Bosnia–Herzegovina, Bosnia Franciscan Theology in Sarajevo and Herzegovina Franciscan Theology in Mostar. All of these schools, except for Bosnia–Franciscan Classical High School at Visoko and Bosnia Franciscan Theology at Sarajevo, were closed down by communist regime in 1945 and were not allowed to operate during the whole period of that regime (1945–1991). However, thanks to insistence of the Holy See and upon numerous interventions of Archbishop Čekada, Vrhbosnian Theological Seminary was enabled to reopen in 1969. A new era of Catholic school system began in 1994 when first Catholic School Center was opened in Sarajevo by the Archdiocese of Sarajevo and the Congregation of Daughters of Divine Charity. Similar School Centers were gradually opened in Zenica, Tuzla, Travnik, Konjic and Žepče. Most of students in these schools are of course Catholics, but new Catholic School Centers do accept students of diff erent religious and ethnic identities, as did the old Catholic educational institutions.
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Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2003.
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